[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Remove Unused Organizational Units

[Jason Stephenson]

Quoting Elliot Voris <evoris at slcconline.edu>:

> Hi, Developers!
>
> I can't find a "copy" table anywhere, though.

asset.copy


>
> PROBLEM2: There are currently three OUs that we are using:
>
> 1.       SLCCCON: SLCC Consortium
>
> 2.       PHSYS: President's Hall System (the building the library is  
> actually located in)
>
> 3.       MCLIB: McCaslin Library (actor.org_unit id=4)
> ALL books are held in MCLIB. The other two are only there, because  
> of the way the default OUs were set up. I'd also like to get rid of  
> the other two OUs. We're really just one library at a small college.  
> We have no need for a consortium or a system. Further, the OPAC  
> wants to search SLCCCON (despite having hidden the OPAC). So, if I  
> search for a random book, from the search results page I can see  
> that there's a copy in MCLIB. However, on the books detail page (I  
> don't know what you would actually call that), I see "There are no  
> copies available" (meaning no copies in SLCCCON). So, seeing as how  
> we don't need the CON or SYS, I'd like to get rid of them altogether.

Evergreen is designed for consortia and assumes you have a consortium  
and systems. I'm not sure what happens if you get rid of those levels.  
It certainly is not easy to do after you've been running for a while.



>
> RANDOMPROBLEM3: In biblio.record_entry, it looks like all the  
> records have an "owner" field of NULL. Is that a problem?

No.







-- 
Jason Stephenson
Assistant Director for Technology Services
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS